WordPress Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

WordPress
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring WordPress skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing WordPress 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.079% - 0.11%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.68% - 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 - -
South East median daily rate £504 - £383
% change year-on-year - - -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.34
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £17.34

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

WordPress falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 146 97 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.47% 6.03% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 57 71
10th Percentile £350 £365 £308
25th Percentile £413 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -1.10%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £542
90th Percentile £650 £615 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £63.10 £35.83 £24.98
25th Percentile £65.88 £41.25 £40.47
Median hourly rate £71.00 £52.83 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% -23.03% -25.81%
75th Percentile £75.75 £64.73 £70.32
90th Percentile £78.30 - £73.64
South East median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WordPress relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

WordPress job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WordPress.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WordPress

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WordPress.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing WordPress

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 1 £645 - 6
WordPress
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform